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Posted December 8, 2003:

December 8, 2003 - Is It Possible That FluMist®, The Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine, May Be Causing The Flu? - by Sherri Tenpenny, DO - Online Vaccines Conference at Redflagsdaily.com

Atishoo! Atishoo! We All Fall Down? - Is the flu such a dreaded disease? - www.whatareweswallowing.com - "There have been many instances over recent years that show how governments and media oulets are adept at creating unnecessary mass anxiety over disease. With the news that UK supermarket Asda (Walmart subsidiary) is now offering the flu jab on-site to its customers (at the bargain price of £11.97 as opposed to the normal £20.00), readers are strongly encouraged to acquaint themselves with the tawdry, unethical nature of today’s so-called ‘flu protection’ programmes, before rolling up their sleeves."

December 8, 2003 - Vaccine Safety Advocates Support Senator's Vaccine Safety Resolution - NVIC via PRNewswire - "Americans for Vaccine Safety and Accountability, headed by the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), are joining with other parent, veteran and health care organizations in support of a proposed Senate resolution asking Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to review the safety of the military's mandatory anthrax and smallpox vaccination programs. The resolution is being sponsored by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) in response to mounting reports of serious health problems, including unexpected deaths, after soldiers are vaccinated."

December 7, 2003 - Stealth Merger: Drug Companies and Government Medical Research Some of the National Institutes of Health's top scientists are also collecting paychecks and stock options from biomedical firms. Increasingly, such deals are kept secret. (requires registration) - The Los Angeles Times - BLOCKBUSTER ARTICLE!

Comment: This was posted yesterday, but for some reason the link was not included, so I am re-posting this landmark article.

December 4, 2003 - Kids' Medicine Dosage Test Law Signed - President Bush on Wednesday signed legislation giving the government the ability to require drug companies to test medicines to ensure that dosages are appropriate for children. - AP via The Herald News

December 8, 2003 - Attention Deficit Drugs May Have Long-Term Effects - Reuters via ABC News - "Drugs given to children to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could have long-term effects on their growing brains, studies on rats suggest."

March 1998 - Give us this day our daily germs (Volume 19) - journal article (Immunology Today) - "Modern vaccinations, fear of germs and obsession with hygiene are depriving the immune system of the information input upon which it is dependent. This fails to maintain the correct cytokine balance and fine-tune T-cell regulation, and may lead to increased incidences of allergies and autoimmune diseases. If humans continue to deprive their immune systems of the input to which evolution has adapted it, it may be necessary to devise ways of replacing it artificially."

Comment: This just about says it all. I would imagine, however, that the drug companies are chomping at the bit to "devise ways of replacing it artificially". What say we instead stop this madness before it gets any worse?

December 8, 2003 - HHS: Faulty research removed two years ago - UPI - "Despite news reports that recent, federally funded research on the effectiveness of a sex education program may have included fabricated data, the researchers involved actually were exposed more than two years ago and the skewed information was excluded from the final study, the Department of Health and Human Services said Friday."

December 8, 2003 - CDC Study Raises Level of Suspicion - Insight Magazine - "Canned tuna or canned poison?...'We know that high levels of mercury can impair the cognitive development as well as the growth and development of a young child.'...What the critics of mercury in vaccines find provocative about this report is the acknowledgement by physicians that the high levels of mercury ingested from canned tuna can cause severe health risks. One such critic, the mother of an autistic child, wonders 'why everyone gets up in arms over ingesting small amounts of mercury from fish or from breaking a thermometer but finds it acceptable to inject an even more toxic form of mercury directly into the bloodstream of infants.'"

December 8, 2003 - political action alert - To thank Kelly O'Meara and Insight Magazine for their recent article entitled "CDC Raises Level of Suspicion." - National Autism Association Grassroots Center

December 8, 2003 - Demolished: the myth that allows drugs giants to sell more - The Independent, UK - "For years, the drugs industry has grown fat on a myth - the false belief that all drugs will work on just about everybody...That has essentially been the rationale for a culture that has encouraged doctors to prescribe first and ask questions later - at a cost to the NHS of £7.2bn a year in medicines."

Comment: There is some overlap between this article and the one below.

December 8, 2003 - Glaxo chief: Our drugs do not work on most patients - The Independent, UK - "Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually derived any benefit from them...It is an open secret within the drugs industry that most of its products are ineffective in most patients but this is the first time that such a senior drugs boss has gone public."

Comment: Note drug efficacy table in the article above.

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